Last week I was watching a talk from Daniel Benmergui at NYU Game Center about his design process for Fidel. If you haven’t played Fidel, it’s a fun little puzzle game. He talks about all of the decisions he made and all of the thought and deliberation that went into creating it. As I was […]| Steven Ritchie
I’ve been working on a new number puzzle game, on and off, for the past year. It’s somewhat of a spiritual successor of Destructomath+. I have a longer post drafted about its origins, but today I w…| Steven Ritchie
I recently joined a food safety startup, Provision Analytics, and have been using writing to document and clarify my own understanding. This is based on an internal document I prepared to share wit…| Steven Ritchie
I’m sitting here tinkering on a few different projects: chatting with an artist for a small puzzle game, trying to get Replit Agent to build something, and even playing around with Genmoji on my iP…| Steven Ritchie
When I started researching infertility, I kept getting fertility and infertility mixed up. It seems straightforward but there’s an important distinction so let’s get some basic terminology out of the way. Fertility is your ability to conceive a child. And so logically, infertility is your inability to do so. Based on how infertility is measured by the WHO, you’re not considered infertile until you’ve […]| Steven Ritchie
Infertility is a growing problem facing over 1 in 6 couples. What can we do to tackle this issue?| Steven Ritchie
The highest value skill you can develop is agency. Agency is your capacity to get something done. It doesn’t matter what the task is, high-agency individuals will find a way. They are creative, resourceful, relentless, and imaginative. Agency needs optimism. You need to believe that whatever you want is possible and there is a way […]| Steven Ritchie
This is half journal entry half blog post. It’s hard to believe we are ten days into January already. It doesn’t feel like a lot, but I’m in a race against the clock right now. In just over 10 weeks, I’m going to be a dad. There are a few things I want to try […]| Steven Ritchie
Have you ever read something that squashes and stretches your mind, forcing it to work and grow in ways you weren’t expecting? Not every book is capable of this, but when you find it you want more. It’s a bit like a mental workout and when you’re used to cruising through most books, it’s a […]| Steven Ritchie
Everything is a remix is a phrase that has always annoyed me. As someone in pursuit of originality (to a debilitating degree), I felt like this couldn’t be true. If everything was a remix, then how did the first of anything come to be? When I was researching the brain for my article about BCIs, […]| Steven Ritchie
